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Red Hat JBossEAP: Session Fixation (CVE-2017-5656)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Session Fixation (CVE-2017-5656)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/05/2017
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

Apache CXF's STSClient before 3.1.11 and 3.0.13 uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with delegation tokens, which means that an attacker could craft a token which would return an identifer corresponding to a cached token for another user.. It was found that the token cacher in Apache cxf uses a flawed way of caching tokens that are associated with the delegation token received from Security Token Service (STS). This vulnerability could allow an attacker to craft a token which could return an identifier corresponding to a cached token for another user.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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